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PREGAME: Rd 05 vs Essendon

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1 hour ago, roy11 said:

Interesting question, if there was a player dropped or a late out through injury that was meant to be celebrating a milestone match, what does the Demon Army do? @Ghostwriter

Spargo's banner from last week has been patched together and will get another run (100 now 101).

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    30 minutes ago, Demonland said:

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    21 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    Flashback 2014:

    One of the great wins throughout a dark time. How about that last passage woweee

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    I find it odd that we've never played at Norwood Oval for Gather Round. Would be a nice connection for Melbourne to play at the home of the Redlegs.

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    based on Goody Presser, X is in but Fritsch not going anywhere. Interesting to see what changes are made given he is sticking to the players just need to keep playing together... sounds like minimal changes.

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    On 07/04/2025 at 13:20, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    Essendon will do to us on saturday, what they did to us in the 2023 version of gather round.

    They move the ball quick and have quick agile midfielders.

    Will probably go with two Ruckman and work Gawn over like every other team is doing atm.

    33 minutes ago, KozzyCan said:

    I find it odd that we've never played at Norwood Oval for Gather Round. Would be a nice connection for Melbourne to play at the home of the Redlegs.

    Shoutout to Adelaide's leafy East because I lived there for years, but with those straight wings and that brick wall? Yeah, nah. Langdon would run into it and break a bone.

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    Afraid Bombers run and ball movement will be far too quick for the Dees. The guy underrated and who needs to be tagged is Sam Durham. Exceedingly quick by foot and handball he is tenacious and always at the bottom of a pack. The instigator of many Bomber attacks. He is like a young Clarry. Good on the inside but exceedingly dangerous on the outside.

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    8 minutes ago, Adina88 said:

    Shoutout to Adelaide's leafy East because I lived there for years, but with those straight wings and that brick wall? Yeah, nah. Langdon would run into it and break a bone.

    Brick walls have bones?

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    3 minutes ago, hemingway said:

    Afraid Bombers run and ball movement will be far too quick for the Dees. The guy underrated and who needs to be tagged is Sam Durham. Exceedingly quick by foot and handball he is tenacious and always at the bottom of a pack. The instigator of many Bomber attacks. He is like a young Clarry. Good on the inside but exceedingly dangerous on the outside.

    ye but we need to give them problems with Kozzie, Lindsay, Windsor, Sharp breaking the lines. we have pace back in now. and not play bees to a honey pot which the cats loved last week just picking free outside players at will.

    1 hour ago, KozzyCan said:

    I find it odd that we've never played at Norwood Oval for Gather Round. Would be a nice connection for Melbourne to play at the home of the Redlegs.

    It will probably happen next year, coz we won't be at the Adelaide Oval after our dreadful season to date.

    8 hours ago, The Jackson FIX said:

    Lost to Essendon in Adelaide last year. Even our memories are playing [censored]

    How's your memory? 🤣


    3 hours ago, Demonland said:

    Interestingly Goody mentioned ACL fears at the time. Talk about roulette! Will be great to see his cool head out there.

    31 minutes ago, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    It will probably happen next year, coz we won't be at the Adelaide Oval after our dreadful season to date.

    I'm staggered we got centre court again this Gather Round after our poor end to 2024.

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    On 07/04/2025 at 13:20, YesitwasaWin4theAges said:

    Essendon will do to us on saturday, what they did to us in the 2023 version of gather round.

    They move the ball quick and have quick agile midfielders.

    Will probably go with two Ruckman and work Gawn over like every other team is doing atm.

    pretty sure they dominated the air with two rucks and Grundy rucking by himself as Max was injured. A sorry wet day and we were poleaxed. Grundy's fitness and attitude was called into question and I suspect that was the beginning of the end for him at Melbourne

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    1 hour ago, BScotti said:

    based on Goody Presser, X is in but Fritsch not going anywhere. Interesting to see what changes are made given he is sticking to the players just need to keep playing together... sounds like minimal changes.

    Happy for Fritta to get another go. He was better last week and has kicked 0.6 the last 2 weeks. Whilst that sounds like a negative, it's only a matter of time until he starts punishing the opposition.

    I get the rationale behind minimal changes as we were slightly better last week, but it we lose the next 4, then he'll have to blow the entire side up.

    I hope Fullarton gets a go this week. Our forward line isn't working at the moment and lacks height.

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    12 hours ago, hardtack said:

    No, in the starting 22. Start Fullerton at FF and Jeffo is used to give either Fullerton or JVR a break… it gives us some height up forward plus it means we’ll have rested forward to come in when one of Fullerton or JVR is taking ruck duties.

    Are you suggesting Jeffo being on the ground solely to give JVR or Fullarton (if selected) a break then back off after they’ve had their 5 or so mins on the bench or ruck duties per quarter?

    Modern footy just does not work like that. No one is selected in the 22 to give players breaks.

    I could be misinterpreting what you’re saying though.


    36 minutes ago, Demonland said:

    You can probably thank the AFL's love of Essendon for that.

    Yes but they must've been expecting us to be better than we have been, Friday night into standalone Saturday night. We hardly ever got those slots in the bad old days.

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    I have been very pessimistic about the Dees this year. To the extent of putting money on GWS, Gold Coast and Jee-long.

    I didn't bet on Norf cos I thought we'd at least win that one.

    I'm not betting at all on Round 5 cos I think there's a chance we'll beat Essendon.

     
    2 hours ago, Demonland said:

    You can probably thank the AFL's love of Essendon for that.

    And the AFL's love of Carlton sees them involved in the weekend's 9th ranked interesting game at Adelaide Oval.

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